There is no ability to provide the old UI. You know this.

The code was removed from the client and abandoned years ago. It wouldn't work now anyway as they made changes on the backend to support the current UI.

I don't ever run into crashes with the current client. If you're trying to run it on Windows 7, that might be the problem. Otherwise, you have something else that is interfering with it.

Can't say I remember too many crashes in the last decade across a half a dozen different systems.

Crashes too much? The only crash I ever had of Steam was in 2019 shortly after they introduced the new library UI. Outside that, never, across several different systems in the past 14 years.
Games also only a handful and all of those were related to the games (were older games).

If things crash often for you, you might want to do some local troubleshooting.

Hmmm, stable for me on Linux and in Windows 11 thus far. Only issues I've had were back button bugged some, bit they fixed that a while ago

Originally posted by Shinoskay:

Dude, the new steam UI code crashes way too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ much, and I still hate the UI design....

AND the code is still way too freaking demanding.

Steam literally patched ways to prevent people from forcing old ui. its so dumb, people made script and programs just to keep it and steam went in and blocked them.

I do not think it's Steam that's causing the crashes. It's far too stable to do that.

Also the option you talk about always exist for a few months after a new skin is out. It's there for debug reasons and once they are fully done with the new skin they will remove it. Always have and always will.

Originally posted by Shinoskay:

Steam!

My games crash because they do active checks through steam, the new UI crashing and forcing front end program restores not only kicks me out of games... but interrupts my games... AND is just frustrating. Especially when it ends up reloading repeatedly because it cant properly restore itself and CONSTANSTLY freaking demands being the top window.

And dont even get me started with that I STILL hate the new notifications display. I LIKED seeing a number at a glance, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ HATE that you shoved ad space into the notifications toggle.

Everything these are just bad.

Your crashes are most likely related to graphics card drivers. If you have Nvidia you might be on one of the bad drivers.

as I have said in many previous threads. I have multiple devices. it gives me problems on ALL my devices. problems I didnt have with the older ui.

the rest of what you said is irrelevant

I understand how frustrating these crashes and UI issues can be. Unfortunately I’m unable to help you to return Steam’s UI to the old version, I can suggest a possible solution related to Steam’s overlay

I experienced a similar problem where the Steam overlay caused crashes in multiple games, regardless of which game I ran. In my case, the solution was to completely uninstall the current GPU drivers and then install the latest versions directly from the GPU manufacturer’s website

To be honest, I tried other solutions as well, but this was the only thing that worked for me

Originally posted by Shinoskay:

as I have said in many previous threads. I have multiple devices. it gives me problems on ALL my devices. problems I didnt have with the older ui.

the rest of what you said is irrelevant

Seem to a pattern of issues on multiple devices that other users do not have. It's a reasonable conclusion to believe an error is being made in regard to running the systems compared to other users on default or enthusiasts that know how to alter their systems, or that there's another undiagnosed issue that is resulting in a localized problem.

For example if it didn't replicate on a friends system or when no longer present in the same building or service line, that would bring into question if there's an infrastructure issue such as damaged or unstable service line (power/internet) which can replicate unusual issues others don't have when under load or specific load scenarios other than basically idling. Depending on the board and chip, you'd want to ensure the BIOS is updated to prevent instability or basically self-destruction of the CPU for specific CPUs only.

Else, you would want to run everything on default. No special apps. No controllers attached. No special devices. Mid-range GPU drivers. Minimal run for troubleshooting. When highly unusual things follow a user it tends to either be user error or service based issues if they only replicate in the same structure.

If your computer is having trouble running the Steam client, you have problems far beyond the UI.

Originally posted by matt:

If your computer is having trouble running the Steam client, you have problems far beyond the UI.

Even more so if they've asked multiple times in many threads and were told multiple times the solution. But who am I to complain about free entertainment?

I love that people dont care that I've said this EVERY SINGLE TIME ive complain about the ui.

That its been a problem across MULTIPLE devices.
Or that I work in tech, so its not because im inept or dont understand computers.

or that other people have complained in the past alongside me.

no, no. just say its a me problem, yet again.
so dumb

Originally posted by Shinoskay:

I love that people dont care that I've said this EVERY SINGLE TIME ive complain about the ui.

That its been a problem across MULTIPLE devices.
Or that I work in tech, so its not because im inept or dont understand computers.

or that other people have complained in the past alongside me.

no, no. just say its a me problem, yet again.
so dumb

"Works on my machine so the problem doesn't exist" or "I don't see a problem so the problem doesn't exist" are the most common responses from the regulars on this forum. I am not sure what you expect. Nobody here has tech support expertise or is a Valve employee.

Originally posted by William Shakesman:

Originally posted by Shinoskay:

I love that people dont care that I've said this EVERY SINGLE TIME ive complain about the ui.

That its been a problem across MULTIPLE devices.
Or that I work in tech, so its not because im inept or dont understand computers.

or that other people have complained in the past alongside me.

no, no. just say its a me problem, yet again.
so dumb

"Works on my machine so the problem doesn't exist" or "I don't see a problem so the problem doesn't exist" are the most common responses from the regulars on this forum. I am not sure what you expect. Nobody here has tech support expertise or is a Valve employee.

this is the suggestions space. I expect people to be polite and respectul and understand I am posting this for steam to see... not them.

Insulting me, gaslighting me, even if I am use to it... I refuse to expect it.

I expect the community to be one of adults and to be a community.